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Growing trend to arrest whites on fake charges

A pattern is growing in South Africa to arrest whites under false charges – often in a blaze of publicity -- locking them up in vile conditions including gang-rape; where some die in custody; but most are released without any trial:

Ever since 1994, there is a growing trend by the SAPS and by municipal traffic-police to arrest ‘whites’ under false pretenses, keep the victims locked up, deny them bail, not charging them with anything -- and eventually releasing them. The suffering caused by families who temporarily lose their breadwinners to this vile form of state-terrorism is being placed on record on Farmitracker. Many of these victims, male and female, also are raped and even murdered while in police-custody. We record these as hate-crimes.

For the past 18 years, a trend hasalso been noticed in South Africa of the growing number of human-rights violations by the SA policing authorities where specifically Afrikaners and English-speaking white males are arrested on trumped-up charges, often related to fraudulent sexual- or ‘hate-speech’ claims, put through the ordeal of a high-profile arrest accompanied by massive news-media reporting: often their names and photos are published before they have even been charged and asked to plead in a court of law. These men are often also denied the right to apply for bail and are forced to spend long periods of time in trial-awaiting incarceration.

Under ANC-regime, the number of deaths in police-custody and in police action has soared: and the latest developments on July 31 2012 do not bode well either: the army was called in to help police specifically Afrikaans-language civilian areas – even though no state of emergency was declared:

Above: Alberton July 17 2012: Afrikaner Werner van den Berg was pulled over by traffic cops, dumped in police-van and kept in custody for more than four hours 22h00 Friday: Voortrekker Road - official screamed he 'owed R1000 fine'. Two more men and elderly woman also dumped in same van: then offloaded at Brixton SAPS after 4 hrs & released without any explanation http://www.neo-genocide.com/farmitracker/reports/view/154

Where is Justice for Afrikaners such as Mrs Janet Odendaal, murdered execution-style in front of the Kempton Park police station?

Above: Kempton Park – The trial of the accused murderer of Janet Odendaal, SAPF sergeant Mnape Phineas Kgoale was postponed to January 2012. That was the latest information. IN June 2011, Kgoalewas quietly given bail at the Kempton Park magistrate’s court – where colleagues have also been shielding him from being photographed by the news media. The circumstances of Janet Odendaal’s murder were horrific: It was reported that Kgoale came walking out of the Kempton Park police station while Mrs Odendaal was sitting inside her car: friends told the news media later that she apparently very frightened, and was calling the 10111 emergency number. It was also reported during his first bail application – which was attended by the news media — that Kgoale had just returned to duty from treatment at the Elim Clinic for Alcohol Addiction between March 26 to April 2, and had earlier that year also undergone treatment for some other unspecified mental illness. The court heard at his first bail-application that Kgoale was ‘in a very emotional state because his girlfriend did not allow him to visit their six-year-old daughter because of his ‘violent, erratic behaviour and alcoholism’. Gerhardt Theron of the local Kempton Park newspaper discovered on July 1 2011 that Mrs Odendaal’s alleged killer was quietly granted R3,000 bail by the Johannesburg High Court on the Wednesday before. “Sgt Mnape Phineas Kgoale paid his bail after his court appearance in Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court,’ noted Theron: adding: ‘during this appearance both the state and the accused’s representative Mr Riaan Louw, asked for a postponement ‘for further investigations’. Louw also wanted to know whether the trial would take place in Kempton Park or in the Johannesburg High Court. Mnape stands accused of shooting and killing Odendaal in Monument Road opposite Kempton Park Police Station on April 26 2011The case was postponed to August 15.” In January 2012, the Kempton Park news media wrote that the trial would start in January 2012.

28 April 2011 - Westonaria SAPS station. Frederick Olivier, a young Afrikaner man who was looking forward to his hoped-for first job at the local gold-mine, was arrested on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, allegedly when 'police received a complaint of disturbing the peace.' Police claimed he ‘hanged himself.’

He was dumped in the holding cells of Westonaria police station for 'public drunkenness', said constable Lienkie Lefekane 'for the obligatory four-hour drying out period. Olivier, claimed Lefekane, was then "discovered hanging in his cell when police officers checked on him." The police did not say whether Olivier was in the cell alone that Tuesday-night. According to Olivier’s father Ollie, this version of events makes no sense. His son had bruises on his face which looked as if he had been beaten up. He didn’t have those bruises when he was taken into custody by the Westonaria police. "My son had a bright future ahead of him," says Olivier. "He was hopeful of getting a job on the mine, where he recently applied, and was supposed to get engaged in September. Why would he do something like this?" Olivier has his suspicions about his son’s death in custody. "I have photographs of my son in his casket. He looks as if he’s been beaten up. He had no mark on his face when he was arrested." Meanwhile, Lefekane insists that there was "nothing untoward regarding this case. He was arrested for drunkenness, and he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. A case has been opened and is being investigated," says Lefekane. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/randfontein-westonaria/randfontein-westonaria-news-crime?oid=4374194&sn=Detail&pid=489914&Boy-dies-in-police-custody

Third Degree TV programme highlights the cruel police-cell death of confused old-age Afrikaner pensioner James Brown:

June 9 2009 – deniseryan@mweb.co.za sent around a petition, demanding a new investigation into the deeply mysterious death of Kriel old-age pensioner James Brown in a cell of the local police station. By August 2012, no-one was arrested for this murder of a defenceless old man in a police cell where he had been placed by himself . The TV programme Third Degree, broadcast by ETV in South Africa, showed these pictures of the late Mr Brown who was arrested at the Shoprite supermarket in Kriel – for ‘taking a chocolate bar without paying for it’. Ryan wrote: “The old man was assaulted, beaten and sprayed with pepper spray by the police officers who arrested him without any probable course for their behavior towards him – the old man did not resist arrest and the police officers were never in any danger from him at any stage. This old man did not know he was doing anything wrong because he was an Alzheimer’s sufferer – his doctor said his physical health was good, but he did suffer from Alzheimer. “After his arrest, his civil rights were also violated because he had nobody to assist him and his right to a phone call was not presented to him otherwise he could have been assisted by a family member or attorney. “He died within four hours of custody at the Kriel police station . Relatives also questioned the reason for the (clearly fresh) head wound to the back of his head because the footage on the CCTV which showed his arrival at the Shoprite in Kriel, proved that he ‘d had no injuries at all.

Morné Pieterse cursed, beaten by SAPS Welkom Welkom. 2011-04-27 An Afrikaner resident of Welkom who wanted to talk to a detective to help with a crime-investigation, was cursed and beaten instead. Pieterse 's eyes now are blackened after he and his girlfriend Rhona went to the police station on Friday at around 7pm, looking for a specific detective they wanted to talk to, to give him information they had about a certain crime. (source: Tom de Wet). A black female clerk in civilian clothes cursed Rhona, shouting that they would have to contact the detective themselves, and to 'fkoff' out of her police station. Then a male uniformed police officer jumped over the counter and beat Pieterse in the face several times. The couple then asked other police officials at the station to help them lodge a formal complaint against the cop who had assaulted him - but nobody wanted to help. Eventually the detective they'd enquired after, came to the police station. And then Pieterse was beaten by the same cop again - in front of the detective, who intervened. Pieterse has lodged a formal complaint at the Virginia SAPS against the Welkom police man.SAPS captain Stephen Thakeng said 'a senior officer will be appointed to investigate the complaint. If a guilty person can be identified strong action will be taken.'

One of the worst cases besides the 'Boeremag' case - where 11 Afrikaners have been kept in high-security cells for the past ten years, and one died from an infection due to his cell floor flooding with sewage -- is that of SAPS sergeant Ignatius le Roux, arrested on trumped up charges and kept in custody for three years – and who was released after the case was dropped on February 26 2012 ‘due to a lack of evidence”. http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/2470

UK businessman Sean Smith: gang-raped up to 8 times a day for 19 months in St. Albans prison near Port Elizabeth, South Africa: ‘to show their supremacy over a white man: I was the only one there,’ he told a UK newspaper.

Above: UK-born businessman Sean Smith was arrested on trumped up ‘fraud’ charges, thrown in the St Albans prison in a cell with 90 other black prisoners, where he was gang-raped up to 8 times a day for a period of 19 months - until the UK High Commissioner was able to get him bail and smuggled him from South Africa to Lesotho in the trunk of an official UK government vehicle. The businessman has contracted AIDS and also is suffering from cancer.. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/896211-businessman-tells-of-south-african-prison-rape-that-left-him-hiv-positive

Johan Fourie, sr.superintendent SAPS Limpopo, not guilty of trumped-up theft charges, lodges charge with Human Rights Commission: now fights to get job-rights back years after he was cleared of deliberately trumped-up 'theft' charges Pietersburg – http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/739

The Afrikaner ex-commander of the SAPS anti-corruption unit was arrested on trumped up murder-charge and a false claim was published in the news media that he was a member of the Boeremag‘' (which is not illegal in SA)

Short, Gerhardt and Rene, arrested on trumped-up charges: not guilty of attempted murder, De Wildt, Magalies "Today we are going to arrest a Boer’…was the reported hatespeech by the black arresting officers against arrested the two arrested Afrikaner men: De Wildt, Brits Le Grange father Joseph, son Pieter, friend Hendrik vdWesthuizen appeal against unfair trial due to racial prejudice of Judge Frans Kgomo:court ruled that the three Afrikaners from Prieska had an unfair trial because of anti-Afrikaner judge Frans Kgomo - Supreme court of appeal rules... http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/743

Boeremag accused Dr Lets Pretorius was abused in prison and cops tried to force him to ‘confess’, his testimony in radio interview Pretorius, Lets, trial-awaiting Afrikaners are racially-abused in Pretoria high security prison - radio interview Feb 8 2008 listen to the radio interview - Fri Feb 8 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/217

Willem Ratte and 9 other arrested Afrikaners on trumped up charges: spat at by muslim outside Witbank court room

Above: Israeli pro-Boer activist Avigdor Eskin -- on fact-finding mission in South Africa – also attended the arrested Boers’ court-appearance in Witbank and recorded this incident, as did Dr Dan Roodt of the Pro-Afrikaans-Action-Group PRAAG . All these men were released and the charges dropped – but not before a massive amount of international news media attention. Willem Ratte, a decorated 32Battallion leader was twice arrested on trumped-up weapons charges: he was teaching unemployed Afrikaner youths a new artisan trade at the Balmoral concentration-camp museum site. He and other witnesses also testified that the police had planted weapons – even in a tree - and even searched an adjacent farm to locate some marijuana so that they could keep the men in custody for eleven days. All these charges were dropped – but Ratte had to go on a determined hunger-strike before they would release him. During one of their appearances, a Muslim man from Ventersdorp (above) spat on the men as they exited from the court room, watched by the SAPS.http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/638

Legal gun-smith, ex-police officer Herbert Johnson of Durbanville: dragged from surgery, forced to appear in court in wheelchair: granted a mere $300 bail… 2011-01-22 Carryn-Ann Nel, Die Burger, BELLVILLE magistrate’s court: Eyes brimming with tears and in obvious agony, 59-year-old old retired police officer, legal, registered gun-smith Herbert Johnson, was forced to get up out of his hospital bed in the Panorama Mediclinic where he’d undergone surgery on his back just a day earlier. The state ordered him dragged him into court with claims that he possessed massive quantities of “illegal’ firearms. Among the more ridiculous items shown by the triumphant police chief Cele at an SABC-News conference on January 16 2011 while displaying this ‘massive arms cache’ was a display of totally useless, plastic-cast guns, realistic looking but only used as toys or to advertise such products with… The house/business of the legal gunsmith was searched while he was in hospital undergoing surgery. Johnson was helped into the court-room by a friend, Gerald Bailey, who said Mr Johnson was unable to walk without being in agony. The surgery wounds were still very fresh. Before the case started, he moreover had been forced by the police to climb down and up 40 steps just to have his finger-prints taken. “When he got downstairs he fell down on the floor, groaning with pain,’ said Bailey. “I made him let him stretched out on the floor to stabilise his back. He was in so much pain… indeed, the clerk could easily have taken his fingerprints upstairs. I don’t understand why he had to personally appear in court when he’s in so much pain: his surgeon had warned him that he had to remain in bed for a month to recover fully after his surgery yesterday.’ His lawyer Ed Booth already had prepared a sworn statement-- y which was intended to explain his ‘absence in court’. In the statement, Mr Johnson ‘took note’ of the charges against him, but also said he contested these charges and that will for now, exercise his right to remain silence. In his bail-application submission, Booth said his client had ‘provided his fullest cooperation to the police”. His doctor wrote me that Mr Johnson was unable to appear in court for a month - so that he can fully recover from the surgery to his back. Mr Booth submitted that Mr Johnson did not pose a danger to society nor any flight-risk: “He has 29 years of experience as a police officer, and received several medals including for bravery during his work. He now works as an independent businessman who runs his legal gun-smith business from his home in Durbanville. He is a qualified and fully-licensed gun-smith.’ During the procedings Johnson asked the court if he would be allowed to stretch his back by standing up, the journalist noted. Linden was granted a mere R3,000 ($300) bail and the case was postponed to 30 March. http://www.dieburger.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-met-erge-rugpyn-kry-swaar-in-hof-20110121

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Dec 23 2010: Legal white gun dealer arrested in Westville, Durban: acquitted of any wrongdoing in April 2012: was supplying merchant ships for guns to fight against Somali pirate attacks:

The SA police claimed that the legal arms-shipment from Malta, earmarked in the documentation as destined for the Somali military in order to ‘help fight Somalian pirates’, was being ‘illegally diverted to the illegal arms trade in SA. They confiscated 308 rifles, two shotguns, two AM3 assault rifles with telescopic lens and silences, and 592 rounds of ammo. The dealer claims that all the gun -permits were in order, and that they were being legally transshipped to the Somalia military: it was the police which unpacked the weapons from their shipping crates, as this police-picture clearly shows:

The confiscated hunting rifles belonging to Brig.ret. Jack Roux were legally-registered, however they were ‘not kept in locked gun-safes but were stored like chickens all over the place,’ claimed the SA police chief genl. Bheki Celein a dramatic news conference. The rifles and ammo were locked inside metal boxes instead of gun-safes. This propaganda was prominently broadcast on Afrikaans-radio stations such as Radio Jacaranda-FM. Cele also said that ‘the weapons would be investigated for the possibility that they were used by a rhino-poaching syndicate’. Brig-ret. Jack Roux, the Afrikaans ex-police officer who was arrested, is a man with a many years of police-service and an impeccable record in his community. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Wapens-le-soos-hoenders-in-huis-rond-20110114

Jan 13 2011 – Black man taken for questioning but not arrested for illegal Boksburg gun-cache

Boksburg police also claimed the ‘arms-cache lying around all over the place” in a backyard shack of a house in Boksburg North was ‘illegal’ and that most of it ‘belonged to the SAPS’. However the black man who was arrested briefly for having the stuff in his shack, “ was not going to be charged with any crimes”, accounced lt-col. Lungelo Dlamini…

“White-right Planned to Overthrow the State” claim: the Balmoral gun-cache which wasn’t

WITBANK, Balmoral farm. 30 Sept 2010 - One of the more ridiculous ‘gun-cache raids’ which however had dreadful repercussions for the ten arrested Afrikaner men who were targetted, was carried out against the delapidated Balmoral Boer Genocide Museum on September 30 2010.

At the Boer-museum museum-grounds, which also houses the remains of hundreds of Boer-Concentration camp victims frm the Anglo war against the Boer Republics, Willem Ratte, a retired Commander of the former SA Army’s 32nd Battallion, and himself a very skilled artisan, was teaching some young Afrikaner youths the carpentry trade so that they could work as independent craftsmen -- very essential for unemployable white youths who are being denied access to the entire job-market BY LAW. The SAPS had launched the raid without any kind of search warrant on 30 September and claimed they had uncovered an ‘arms-cache which was stashed to carry out acts of terrorism and attempts to overthrow the State’. Instead what was actually confiscated were some legally-registered firearms, legally-registered ammunition, a few disabled antique guns from the Boer-Genocide museum located on the farm and some tools used for carpentry- and gardening.

One of the cops was also seen on their official picture (above) of their ‘confiscated arms-cache’ , standing to one side, holding a military R5 attack carbine with a scope -- which they claimed they had found ‘hidden high in a tree’ while they searched the farm without any legal warrants. Commander Ratte was kept in jail the longest: he had to go on an extended hungerstrike before he was granted bail after a month of illegal incarceration. He also was tortured while in police-custody and during questioning. After months of trying to break his spirit in jail, Ratte was released - and all the charges dropped. http://www.praag.co.za/nuus-magazine-402/afrikaanse-nuus-magazine-401/8879-willem-ratte-op-hongerstaking-in-tronk.html

Nov 30 2008 - Mr Baden Hall, a former police reservist who ran a corporate landscaping business from his Kyalami smallholding north of Johannesburg, filmed this assault by the police officer. The former police-reservist was following one of his business-trucks on Thursday morning enrute to a filling station in Lonehill, north of Johannesburg, when it was pulled over at a police roadblock on Lonehill Boulevard and his workers were summarily arrested “for not having their identification cards on them”. He was told that the men would be taken to Morningside police station, and when he queried this as Douglasdale police station was closer, he was insulted and assaulted.

He wrote on the clip he posted: “A deranged Black Female unemployed reservist constable T MAHLWEMPU Force Number 2040072-1 masquerading as Sergeant attacks me (and ends up punching my wife) because I was filming her aggression inter alia: “

“She (the female police officer) started screaming a string of political abuse at me along the lines of ‘You white sh**, you are going to die here with your money. We will make sure you never leave this country, you will die here first’,” said Hall. The seven seconds of footage on his phone shows an angry policewoman storming the camera aggressively, striking out in front of her as a loud slap sounds. Then the picture ends suddenly as the phone was knocked out of Hall’s hand. The couple said the attack caused a commotion, as other police members entered the fray and restrained their aggressive colleagues.Hall said: the issue is the fact that "an arresting officer refused to identify herself, then struck me twice when I tried to photograph her lapel badge.“

“They join ranks against you…’Speaking to The Star newspaper shortly after the incident, Hall said he was devastated, and would lay a charge of assault against the police-woman.“Nobody was in control there. The inspector told me to f*** off at least three times, and I intend opening a case and reporting this to the Independent Complaints Directorate in the hope this will be escalated as high as possible.”Melanie Hall said she was horrified by the assault. “You feel so helpless. They join ranks around you.” The SAPS said they could not comment

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '